Prune Your Time Machine Backups Selectively : TidBITS
"If the presence of large unnecessary backups is diagnostic of some flaw in your backup strategy, you might also like to modify your Time Machine preferences to exclude, explicitly, the troublesome file(s). I recovered about 10 GB of backup drive space instantly by discovering large files that I had unnecessarily and inadvertently backed up."
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Selectively prune your Time Machine disk. |
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"If the presence of large unnecessary backups is diagnostic of some flaw in your backup strategy, you might also like to modify your Time Machine preferences to exclude, explicitly, the troublesome file(s). I recovered about 10 GB... |
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